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  <title>The CT Mirror: Advocates threaten discrimination lawsuit over treatment of Whiting patients</title>
  <pubDate>March 23, 2022</pubDate>
  <description>Mike Lawlor, associate professor of criminal justice, says a law about how the state supervises people acquitted of crimes because of serious mental conditions, which is now being challenged, was designed to protect the public when discharging a patient from Whiting Forensic Hospital who was charged with a crime but found not guilty by reason of insanity.</description>
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  <author>michael-lawlor</author>
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